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PhD student William Wong, reflected in the droplet, was part of the team that developed a spray-on material with a remarkable ability to repel water. This image won an international science photography prize. Photo by Stuart Hay.

After more than three decades at ANU, Photographer Stuart Hay has vivid memories of the towering figures who have marched across the campus.

Melinda Walker and Adam Agius. Photo by Stuart Hay.

Rockin' love

Melinda Walker and Adam Agius met on campus after a gig. They have been rockin’ out together ever since.

Bookshelf: Tax, social policy and gender

The issue of gender equality is at the forefront of current debate and there is wide public and policy interest, as Emily Hazlewood reports.

Melbourne rally for marriage equality. Photo by Paris Buttfield-Addison, Wikimedia commons

Word watch: The language of marriage equality

Last year’s postal survey evoked the theme of a ‘fair go’, as Australian National Dictionary editor Dr Amanda Laugesen, BA (Hons) ’97, PhD ’01 explains.

Jimmy Clements on the day of the opening of Old Parliament House, 9 May 1927. Source: National Library of Australia.

Life sentences: Neither beaten nor bowed

Dr Malcolm Allbrook looks back to the scene at the opening of Old Parliament House.

Q&A: Professor Mick Dodson

Professor Mick Dodson is retiring after almost two decades as Director of the National Centre of Indigenous Studies at ANU. Throughout his career, he has been a prominent advocate for land rights and other issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. He spoke with Ross Peake.

Canberra doesn't own national security

‘Canberra knows best’ simply doesn’t cut it in the national security arena. Anthony Bergin says we need a new federalism that recognises and integrates the role of Australia’s states and territories.

Dr Robert Wellington delivering the 2017 Last Lecture. Photo by Michelle Haywood.

On the love of beautiful things

Dr Robert Wellington, Lecturer in Art History and Art Theory, was chosen to deliver the 2017 Last Lecture. The event is not a University award decided by a committee – students decide whom they would like to hear speaking at a 'red velvet' event in October, as a symbolic end to the academic year. Here is an edited extract of Dr Wellington’s lecture.

A visible Asian face in Australian leadership

Elizabeth Lee LLB ’03, B Asian Studies ’03 reflects on the responsibilities of her role as lawyer-turned-politician.

Aborigines more popular than Captain Cook?

Professor Ann McGrath AM says Captain Cook was not always popular with the Australian public.

Georgia Leak at a media conference outside Parliament House.

Opportunity of a lifetime

Georgia Leak revels in university life as a Tuckwell Scholar.

Light Horse brigade for cyber future

The Australian National University’s big new initiative in the 21st century cyber domain has a surprising resonance with the nation’s military history of a century ago.

Love token commissioned by Thomas Allsop (transported in 1833). Photo by Jason McCarthy, NMA.

Exhibition Space - most memorable dozen

Captivating objects from the nation’s history are the focus of an innovative project, as Paris Lord reports.

Shaping up for success

ANU researchers have uncovered a possible new tool to help better understand the mechanisms of pest invasions, and even predict them. Rosemary Schmedding reports.

How is this even possible?

The Gyuto monks of Tibet perform amazing sounds in their harmonic chants – they produce several notes at the same time. Evana Ho reports.

Helping wild bees work for farmers

A major research project aims to improve Australian food production by better understanding the complex life of wild bees. James Grubel reports.

Warramunga Station. Photos by James Walsh.

The sound of silence

Why does ANU have a research station and staff in the middle of the Australian desert, and what does it have to do with nuclear weapons? Tabitha Carvan travelled to the Northern Territory to discover that if you want to hear something very loud – nuclear explosion loud – you have to go somewhere very, very quiet.

Liquid Light: Red #15 (detail), Liz Coats, 2004, acrylic on canvas, courtesy the artist and Utopia Art Sydney.

Exhibition space: Active seeing – a feast for the eyes

Liz Coats has devoted decades to researching the interaction of paint colours and how people perceive them. Simon Jenkins reports.

Unlocking the mysteries of Zealandia

An expedition involving ANU has helped to solve the mysteries of Zealandia, an underwater continent to the east of Australia, and of the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ which is a hotspot for volcanoes and earthquakes. Will Wright reports.

Troops in Mindinao. Photo by Karl Grobl, The Asia Foundation.

Growing threat on our doorstep

Does the push by ISIS into the southern Philippines pose a danger for regional nations such as Australia? Ross Peake reports.

Benjamin Duterrau’s The Conciliation is an idealised depiction of the British Protector of the Aborigines, George Augustus Robinson, at the centre of a group of Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Life sentences: Protector of Aborigines

Dr Samuel Furphy examines the office of Protector of Aborigines, in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Word watch: makarrata

In the recent Uluru Statement from the Heart, the First Nations National Constitutional Convention called for a Makarrata Commission, as Australian National Dictionary editor Dr Amanda Laugesen, BA (Hons) ’97, PhD ’01 explains.

Bookshelf: A Bark But No Bite

The central theme of A Bark But No Bite explores the puzzle as to how and why social and economic inequality affected the campaign and outcome of the 2014 general election in New Zealand.

My vision for the future of technology

ANU has announced a 10-year plan to drive the expansion of its program in engineering and computer science. The expansion in part will be led by one of the world's top technologists, Professor Genevieve Bell, who will be based within the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science. Professor Bell recently joined the University from Intel, and will lead a new Autonomy, Agency and Assurance Institute, to be known as the 3A Institute, co-founded with CSIRO's Data61, Australia's largest data innovation network. The 3A Institute will bring together the best researchers from around the world and a range of disciplines to build a new applied science around the management of artificial intelligence, data and technology and of their impact on humanity. Here is an edited extract of a speech in which Professor Bell detailed her vision.

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